Install AbanteCart on a Linux VPS

Today we are going to show you how to install AbanteCart on a Linux VPS. AbanteCart is an open source PHP-based ecommerce platform for small or medium businesses. The powerful core features and numerous extensions allows you to build an online business and start selling your products in no time.

First, make sure that all your system software is up-to-date. If you have a CentOS VPS you can use this command to update all your system software:

Once you create a database for the AbanteCart, you are done with the command line interface. Now, you can move to the next step of the installation process, which is in fact much easier. Open your favorite web browser and navigate to:

http://IP-ADDRESS/abantecart

Of course, you need to replace the IP-ADDRESS from the previous command with the IP address of your server. Else, you will get an error. If everything is OK you should be able to continue with the online installation.

Some of the required settings needed to continue with the installation process are:

Also, you will need to enable additional extensions if they are not already enabled. The extensions are the following:

Extensions:
MySQL: On
GD: On
CURL: On
ZIP: On
MultiByte String: On

A good way to start using AbanteCart is to check the online documentation available here.

Of course you don’t have to do any of this if you use one of our Linux VPS hosting services, in which case you can simply ask our expert Linux admins to install AbanteCart for you. They are available 24×7 and will take care of your request immediately.

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